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Primary school students have been reading TikTok sensation Icebreaker, an enemies-to-lovers romance about a figure skater and an ice hockey player. The cartoon cover features a ponytailed girl (who looks to be in her tweens) in a sparkly purple costume, smiling up at a much taller boy holding a hockey…

Edna O’Brien has died at age 93

After early novels that won international acclaim but were banned at home, the Irish author had a prolific career lasting more than half a century

From ‘The Great Gatsby’ to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, Finn Cliff Hodges looks at the best covers out there

The floral notes of an elderflower gin fizz, but with a clip round the ear from tart gooseberry

Buying and selling movie scripts has been a thing since 'Pulp Fiction,' but now, Hollywood is transforming the trend from a nerdy side-hustle to a major source of revenue and prestige.

The author’s new book will hit UK shelves in September 

Generosity, warmth and joie de vivre characterise this collection of the great poet’s letters

Dancing Queen, Readman’s meditation on a lost friend, won this year’s Observer/Faber graphic short story prize. Now she’s glad she gave up the day job…

The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his Oberon. With his almost psychic connection to nature and a charisma so powerful that even the Queen was rumoured to…